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April 28, 2026 | Financial

Ukrainian Railways secures €44m EU grant

EBRD is providing an additional €10m grant for station upgrades.

April 15, 2026 | Africa

Ghana secures EU grant for ETCS project

ETCS Level 1 will be installed on Tema - Mpakadan line.

March 5, 2026 | Policy

CER endorses Europe’s new ports strategy

EC strategy seeks more investment to increase capacity for rail freight at European ports.

February 3, 2026 | Europe

European Railway Award winners honoured

Awards presented to supporters of a high-speed network for Europe and the Polish Presidency of the European Council at an event in Brussels.

January 19, 2026 | Europe

European megaproject failings exposed

Europe will miss the 2030 deadline to complete the TEN-T core network as major project costs soar.

December 15, 2025 | Signalling

FRMCS field testing moves closer

With European Union funding secured, preparatory work is now underway for laboratory and field testing of the Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS). Robert Preston reports from the UIC’s Fourth Global FRMCS Conference held in Paris on October 14-15.

September 17, 2025 | Freight

Expanding railfreight automation and interoperability beyond borders

The European Union is fostering key digitalisation and automation technologies in the rail freight sector, including the Digital Automatic Coupler (DAC). But many functionalities can also be applied outside the core EU DAC market, as Steffen Jass* explains.

June 13, 2025 | Technology

Smarter metros on the horizon

The two-year Nexus research project aims to make metro systems smarter, more efficient, and better-suited to meet the demands of modern urban mobility. Project coordinator Pietro de Vito * outlines how the project will be structured and what it hopes to achieve.

February 18, 2025 | Europe

EU commissioner offers strong support for rail

Apostolos Tzitzikostas backs rail to improve Europe’s military mobility while outlining several other priorities for his five-year term in a speech at the European Railway Award 2025 ceremony in Brussels.

January 23, 2025 | Infrastructure

Kumanovo - Beljakovce line reopens in North Macedonia

Work to rehabilitate 31km line forming part of TEN-T Corridor VIII has cost €78m.

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